"The guys down there are lucky [the marlin] didn’t hurt one of them," boat owner Bobby Jacobsen told Bay News 9. "There’s a piece of teak wood around the side of the boat there called the covering board and [the marlin] put a nice hole about an inch thick and cracked it completely about two feet long. [The fish's snout] could have gone through somebody."

When the massive fish became lodged under the boat, one of the crew members took matters into his own hands.

"I decided to try something that I have never seen on the open water or have ever heard of anyone doing before," David Tuthill, the boat's captain, told news outlets. "I threw on a mask, snorkel, and fins, grabbed a gaff, and dove down to the fish and dragged the beast to the surface."